Defense Projects and News

Evening C-17A Globemaster III landing at Ponce in Puerto Rico.

The characteristics of the full-scale aerial target prototype for fifth-generation aircraft testing have been released. The prototype should be affordable, with development of two aircraft costing less than $50 million, and an average unit flyaway cost of less than $10 million, ACC-O said. The aircraft should also be capable of flying for up to 120 minutes, have passive radio frequency and infrared signatures that mimic fifth-generation fighters, and be big enough to transport up to eight chaff/flare dispenser modules.

First quarter highlights for Lockheed Martin.

The new 'Air Force One' as you may already know has suffered some setbacks interms of being delivered for Presidential use.

New 'unheard' of U.S drones being sent to Ukraine.

'Doomsday Plane'.

T-7A Red Hawk "Red Tail".

Flight sim vs real life landing onboard a U.S aircraft carrier with an F-18.

America has a fleet of 'Doomsday' planes... Russia has one also but it was missing in action on their V-Day yesterday.

Switzerland F-18s departing and arriving MEIRINGEN base for training.

X-59

https://www.jetforums.net/threads/news-nasa-x-59-quesst-moves-on-to-next-testing-regime.4189/

Hah! but the plane was doing practice days before...

General Atomics has unveiled a carrier-operable short takeoff and landing (STOL) version of its MQ-9B SkyGuardian/SeaGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). The announcement was made a few days ago on the 10th.

Couple Royal Canadian Air Force F-18s.

Diamond D62 MPP will have a demonstration tour in the U.S. The tour is scheduled to start early July from Diamond Aircraft’s London, Ontario facility and will last until end of August to early September with a stop at the APSCON event in Reno, NV, 25 – 30 July, Air Bear booth 808, where the aircraft will be on the show floor for the entire week. Markus Fischer, Director, Special Mission Aircraft: "In cooperation with Air Bear and all other partners, we put a lot of effort into this demo as it is such important to show the airplane and its capabilities in the field. There is no question that we expect a big boost to the US market and generate a lot of interests and even some bookings during the demo. I am looking very much forward to receiving the first feedback from US pilots and operators to further improve our DA62 MPP capabilities."

Canadian Air Force CC150 Polaris and CF-18s.

RCAF trainers departing YVR interspersed with some commercial traffic.